Bedouin girl critically hurt when shot, apparently by IDF soldiers

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A Bedouin girl was critically wounded on Wednesday when she sustained bullet wounds to the head in the northern Negev. The shots were apparently fired by an Israel Defense Forces soldier.

The military police has opened an investigation into the incident.

The girl, 12, was hospitalized at the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva with life-threatening wounds.

The girl, who had been herding her sheep in the area of the incident, was brought to an IDF base near Kibbutz Orim in the northern Negev in the early afternoon by a Bedouin man. The man said that the girl had been shot by IDF soldiers after she had wandered into a firing zone.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/831805.html

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1. So are they already trying to imply that it was her fault?

"It is still unclear whether the girl's family had a permit for herding in the area of the incident. The herding season has begun and many Bedouin complained that there is a shortage in herding permits. "

This is getting really old.

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2. Injured Bedouin girl who was shot in the Negev shows improvement

"Soroka University Medical Center in Be'er Sheva has reported that the young Bedouin girl who was shot in her head in the Negev last week is now showing great improvement .

The 12-year-old girl was hospitalized in fatal condition with the bullet still in her head. After being operated on she has regained consciousness and is beginning to function independently."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3372699,00.html